O-o-o-kay.  Did you write that article and want to point people to it, or was there something else you wanted to say about it?  It's not a very in-depth piece of writing; it's basically calling ICOs scams without providing a real argument for why people should think that.

Not that I completely disagree with it, but I've got my reason for thinking so and if I just wrote "ICOs suck; they're killing the crypto industry" it wouldn't be worth much as a published blog article.  Know what I mean?  Want to spark some sort of discussion about this?

How is that cheating?  Obviously they look like alt accounts, and he probably screwed up when writing in his username, meaning to write magix instead of monchico...but I only see one application to do the Spanish translation.

BTW, that project WTX Hub looks to me like it's one of those ridiculous projects trying to force a blockchain solution onto an industry that won't have any interest in that sort of thing.  My guess is that it's doomed to failure but will enrich the project devs and no one else.  Beware.

That would be outstanding crypto advice if it weren't so applicable to everything in life.  

Now, since we're sharing words of wisdom, I'd like to give everyone the sage advice "Keep your expectations low and you'll never be disappointed".

Applying xtraelv's dictum and mine to the recent bitcoin debacle, I can state with confidence that I am unfazed by where the price is at ($3799 right as I'm typing this--not too shabby of a rebound if you ask me).  Like Jet Cash, I've been collecting satoshis instead of bitcoin, which I take to mean that he (and I) are dealing in small amounts.  Speaking for myself, if I never sold any of the bitcoins I'd bought or earned, I'd probably have 25BTC or so saved up.  That did not happen, however, and right now I think I own the bitcoin equivalent of a quad venti mocha plus $1 in the tip jar at Starbucks.

And that's OK with me because 1) Shit happens, and I'm over it, and 2) I don't expect to get rich and never expected bitcoin to even be as high as it is now.  I bought some silver with bitcoin when bitcoin was about $500 and boy that turned out to be some really, REALLY expensive metal.  No regrets, though.

Go right to this thread and fill out a proper scam accusation form with all the details and evidence you have.  If the scammer has an account here and your claim is valid, he'll get tagged by DT members--essentially tarnishing his reputation.

There isn't much anyone can do to un-scam you however.  That's the bad news.

I'm trying to stay out of this, even just writing opinions on the matter, but you are absolutely justified in leaving Anduck a neg, and there's no way in hell I'd trust him in an auction situation.  Frankly I'm very, very tempted to leave him a neg for his behavior--and I'd be comfortable doing that because I don't trust him and he's done something very concrete which has earned him that mistrust, to wit: bidding on his own auction.

But this isn't a battle I want to get in the middle of.  If I recall correctly, I didn't feel comfortable with some of the things Vod said as far as the feedback removal situation went.  I read the whole thing when this began and haven't reviewed it. 

The problem is that Anduck is trying to twist these two issues together such that Vod's feedback for self-bidding is wrong because of the previous argument about mutual feedback removal.  Vod's feedback is on the money, regardless of what the PM exchange was (which I'll take a look at later).  Anduck doesn't see what he did as wrong, and I think it was a huge breach of auction etiquette, if not strictly rule-breaking.

I'm not trying to poke fun at you, but making a prediction like that (basically "bitcoin will oscillate much like it's been doing for the past few days") is fairly useless.  You're probably right, but all you're saying is that bitcoin could go up or down and that's DERP.

I'm going to agree wholeheartedly with you on this one.  Not that my crystal ball is functioning, but I think even if bitcoin were to drop lower in the short term, it's going to rebound to $4000 and beyond in the not-too-distant future.  That's just a guess, however, but it's worth the same as anyone else's guess.

Bah!! A pox upon your technical analysis (all in good fun, of course).  Nobody can call bottoms with a straight face.  That won't stop them from trying, and some might be correct, but it's all guesswork.  I think now is a good time to buy.

I did see that account, which is older than mine.  All my past girlfriends tell me I'm skilled with the withdrawal method, so I am fairly certain that he is not in fact my son.  You can puke now trying to get that image out of your head, but it's been that kind of week for me.

JetCash, I don't think any of those accounts are coincidental BTW.  Your name is unique enough such that anyone having anything resembling JetCash would pretty much have to be done for motives of impersonation or the like.

I love posts that make me feel like I need to shower off the lipstick on my gluteus.  The above is definitely going to require some extra body wash of the exfoliating variety.

Good solution.

This thread inspired me to do a search on members with "pharmacist" in their userid's, and there are some interesting new ones.

The_pharmacist seems suspicious, although obviously I don't own any claim on the word pharmacist the way JetCash does with his JetCash domains.

One other interesting one is PharmacistHijacker who registered in 2014 before I was a member.  I wonder what that name is all about.  Sorry to get so off topic, but this is kind of interesting to me.

I was just going to say I did this recently for a post by buwaytress, but I was wrong.  It was 2 different posts of his in the same thread that I merited. 

However, I've made this mistake before, and it sucks when you're running low on sMerits.  I have what I'd call a nervous internet motor tic that makes me keep reloading pages.  Not sure if anyone else is afflicted with this disorder, but I think when you give a merit and then reload the page, it gives the merit out again.  I guess I haven't done it in a while, but I did it at least once when the merit system was new.

And yeah, it's a glitch that I do think needs some sort of fixing.  Theymos ought to come up with a good solution if he deems the problem serious enough (which he probably won't).  We'll see.

I think you've been reading way too many idiotic posts on this forum, and I suspect you're taking advice and getting financial information from the wrong people.

There's no way for anyone to give you any solid advice without knowing how much bitcoin or altcoins you own and what price you bought them at.  If you're currently in the red, I'd probably just hold onto what you've got.  If you sell, you're going to lose money--and that's a certainty if you bought at a price higher than where the market is at now.  And yes, if you hold you might have a chance of recovering and even making a profit. 

But remember, I'm just a random internet person and what I just said should not constitute sound financial advice.  That's true of everyone else here, too, but it's important to realize this and not put too much stock in what the hype-sters and FUDDers tell you.

Pfft.  I'm quite happy with the pay rate staying the same.  Chipmixer was extremely generous when bitcoin was worth a lot more, and this balances it out.  I'm grateful just to be a part of this campaign, because it was hard as hell to get into it in the first place.  0.0075BTC/post is still incredibly generous now that bitcoin is in the crapper.

Well that was a good lesson for you to learn--and for any noobie to learn.  I wish I could have held onto all the bitcoin I've earned through campaigns, but I had to sell a lot and I bought a lot of stuff too.  It's not a huge regret, just a minor one.

It figures that these cock smokers would resort to these tricks in order to circumvent the noob restrictions.  Hopefully they'll get banned on sight.  Jesus, all you have to do is pay for a Copper membership and boom, you can advertise.  But nope, they'd rather cheat and think they're being so clever.

Lol at Digipharm.  I thought that loser project was already finished imploding.

I would absolutely love to sit down and discuss your views on that over coffee or something.  It's too damn bad we live on different continents.

Or you could take my view and think that the bitcoin market is becoming a bit more rational.  $20,000 for an asset that doesn't get used for much other than trading seems insane to me--and I'm a bitcoin supporter, by the way, not a hater.  It could be that where we're at ($3666 as I write this) is more of a level-headed price.

Would I love it to be much higher?  Hell, yes.  But maybe all the weak handed morons and other speculators have been shaken out of the market and it might be time for some new--and hopefully slower--growth.

Wow, LoyceV you get all the respect around here, don't ya?

Everything OP wrote, title of thread included, was confusing.  It was only that link to Coolcryptovator's post that cleared things up for me.  

I don't know what kind of ban you get for bumping threads, but it doesn't look like you were doing that--and now that I look at your OP here it makes sense.  You posted in a thread that was obviously getting professionally bumped, but it doesn't seem like you were a part of it.

Hopefully a mod will take a look at this and review it mercifully.  You probably got banned wrongfully--if it's for paid bumping and not something else.

Agree with LoyceV here.  Make the title clearer, and what he suggested above is a good thread title for your purposes.

Fill out a proper scam accusation form with all the details, including chat logs and whatever else you have.  Not sure if this is worthy of DT tagging him, but in order to make that decision we kind of need to have all the evidence.  

That is 7 days worth of pure hell in the crypto markets--yikes!

I agree that it's probably a good buying opportunity for bitcoin, but I don't have any faith in BCH so I'd stay away from that one for the long-term.  Some of the other ones that might be useful in the future might be worth buying, but I still think bitcoin is where it's at. 

However, even with Bitcoin Cash, you probably could make a decent profit by trading it short-term.  I don't think it's dead or dying even if I lack the aforementioned faith in it.  Other investors probably DO have faith in it and thus will cause it to rebound.  I keep saying this, and it hurts:  If only I had money to buy!!  This is the kind of volatility that can make you big bucks by day trading.

Dammit, I don't start a lot of threads here, but I started one the other day in Reputation about Dig Bicks and his beef with me--and I completely forgot to make the thread self-moderated.  You're right about this, and I know it's been discussed that people should be making self-moderated threads....I just keep forgetting to do so.

Now that I'm thinking about it, it's time to lock up my thread I made.  That's another thing people should be doing once everything that can be said about something has been said.  Keeping threads open too long leaves them vulnerable to spammers.

I wouldn't give a neg to someone who sold their account in 2015, if that's what went on here.  That's too far back and was at a time when account selling was still tolerated and wasn't such a problem.  I don't see anything here that looks worthy of a DT tag unless I'm missing something.

It drive me bonkers when I read snippets like this, that bounty hunters are only earning a few pennies/satoshis/whatever.  It's not an insignificant amount, which is why people are driven to keep doing it.  I don't exactly know what bounty hunters are earning, but for a bitcoin-paying signature campaign, the rewards can be incredible--especially if you're living in a country where the cost of living is very low, i.e., poverty-stricken countries.

I sometimes wonder how well I could live if I had a few alt accounts in campaigns and was living in a place like Indonesia or the Philippines (just for example).  My point is that it's not pennies people are earning.

OP obviously has some alt accounts and is having trouble with the merit system.  No surprise there; lots of people are.  But the worst thing that could happen to bitcointalk right now would be to revoke the merit system, even as an experiment.  If you have any sense of bitcointalk history at all, you realize how bad the forum had become and why Theymos decided to implement merits.

Also, I'm not quite grasping the
part of OP's post.  I'm not feeling attacked whatsoever, and right now I've got plenty of sMerits to give out.  I'm not some moron who can't judge a good post and who's going to feel pressured into handing them out....to these vague "attackers".  I'm fairly sure other merit sources feel similarly.